18 Things You Should Clean at the Beginning of Every Season (I Did All 18 Four Times a Year)

📕 Get The Lunch Lady's Home Cleaning Handbook, every method in this video written down with the amounts, in the order you would really do them: https://doriscleans.com Four times a year a sheet of paper came down to my kitchen with jobs on it that nobody did in between. Eighteen of those jobs transfer straight to a house. Here they are, in the order I did them, which is longest first, because that is the only order that gets you to the end. A house has no trigger. Nobody signs anything, and not one job on this list announces itself. A dirty floor tells you. A filter does not. Here are all eighteen. START THESE AND WALK AWAY 1. The freezer, defrosted and emptied through your hands 2. The pump filter at the bottom front of your washing machine 3. The shower head and the mesh in the ends of your taps 4. The grease filter in your cooker hood 5. The inside of the coffee maker, where the water goes DO THESE WHILE THAT LOT SITS 6. The filter in your furnace, and the arrow on its edge 7. The coils on the back or underneath your refrigerator 8. The filter basket in the bottom of your dishwasher 9. The bin inside your ice maker 10. The window tracks, not the glass 11. The covers over your ceiling lights, on the inside 12. The fins in your radiators or baseboard heaters THE SHORT ONES 13. The can opener, and this is the one I would pick 14. The crumb tray under the toaster 15. The pot you keep your utensils in 16. Your door mats, and I mean both sides 17. The dust on your smoke alarms 18. The dates in your spice tins and your cupboard I also say what I deliberately left off this list, and why, because I have taken a position on both of those before on this channel and I am not going back on either. I'm Mrs. Doris. Thirty-five years behind a school lunch line in Scioto County, Ohio, four hundred children a day on a dollar and five cents a tray. I show you what actually works, I tell you where it stops, and I say so when the common advice has it wrong. TONIGHT, NINETY SECONDS - Take the can opener out of the drawer. - Look at the little wheel that cuts, and then at the gear that grips it. - Hot water, dish soap, an old toothbrush into the teeth of that gear. - Dry it properly before it goes back, because a wet blade is how you get the rust that makes it worse next time. - That is number thirteen, and if you only ever do one job off this list, do that one. IF YOU ONLY HAVE ONE AFTERNOON Do number six and number thirteen. The furnace filter, because the machine is pulling against it right now, and the can opener, because it is ninety seconds for the thing that matters most. WHAT I USED - ENERGY STAR, the federal appliance labelling programme, on furnace filters: check the filter every month, especially during heavy use months, winter and summer, and at a minimum change the filter every three months. Those are their words and that is the interval I quote in the video. - The U.S. Fire Administration on smoke alarms: test the alarm monthly, replace the batteries at least once a year in the nine volt sort, and replace the whole alarm every ten years. - A note on that second one, because it matters. The fire agency says nothing about dusting or vacuuming an alarm. The dusting is mine, from the building, and I say so in the video. What is theirs is the testing, the battery and the ten years. Everything else here is thirty-five years in a building that got inspected whether I felt like it or not, which is the only reason I trust the handful of things I tell you. So tell me what you found when you looked at the can opener, and your county as well, please. I read every one. #cleaningtips #housework #oldschoolcleaning #deepclean